Jane E. Kirtley

Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law, University of Minnesota

Jane Kirtley is the Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, and directs The Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law. She was Executive Director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington, D.C. for 14 years. Before that, she practiced law in New York and Washington, D.C., and was a reporter for newspapers in Indiana and Tennessee.